To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illumine only the track it has passed.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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More Quotes By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  1. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.

  2. Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

  3. No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.

  4. Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

  5. Silence does not always mark wisdom.

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